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Here you'll find practical applications of the On Course Principles. Each strategy has the purpose of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. The majority of these ideas appeared originally in the On Course Newsletter. Additional strategies are described in the Instructor's manual for the On Course text. New ideas are added here often, so come back often. The most recent strategies are identified with the date.

More than 80 free, practical study skills articles

PowerPoint slide show (34 slides)

4 minutes of Randy Pausch's lecture on time management. You can't go wrong with this video. Goals, priorities, and planning.

Some great resources here!

Articles, newsletters, resources; Brain training games

Link suggested/recommended by Marjane

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Short handout on purposes of study groups, guidelines for forming, ground rules and guidelines to bridge meetings. Includes link to PPt presentation, though it appears geared toward law class.

""Two heads are better than one." That's the simple idea behind study groups. By participating in a study group, you take advantage of one of your best academic resources at UW: other students. You get to add their understanding to your own. Study groups also bring a social quality to your study time."

"Learning involves many activities: managing your time, taking notes, reading books, listening to lectures, memorizing, having discussions, and writing tests. We'll cover each of these activities individually, and teach you to do them more effectively. Feel free to learn the sections in any order that makes sense to you; however given that this is a text, we suggest that you start with the Reading Textbooks section."

Resources from the AZ Department of Education: Self assessments, occupational information, and many useful planning tools. For GCC users: Username - glendalecc Password - 4azcis02

Glossary of critical thinking terms

"Confidence Building Exercises How to handle setbacks with confidence How we deal with setbacks has a massive impact on our confidence levels. Two-step worksheet

an educator's blog that i found while taking cis238

"Our minds set up many traps for us. Unless we're aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions. Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them."

50 tips to make your college experience more fun and satisfying! Published on August 23, 2010

"Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success." TED Video 6:20 long